Description
Are you interested in learning how water utilities manage their water distribution infrastructure? Are you skilled at managing complex projects? Are you experienced in communicating technical findings to clients? Have you been looking for a committed team that’s striving to make a positive difference in the world?
If this sounds like you, let’s talk! We’re looking for a project manager to join our team of water utility and data enthusiasts. The Water Loss Consulting team works to help utilities improve the efficiency of their water distribution systems and, in turn, help the world become a more resilient place. The project manager joining our team will play a critical role in tracking project progress, interfacing with our client water utilities, and supporting real-world decisions about water system operations and management.
E Source provides predictive data science, research and advisory, and solution services to help utilities make decisions that benefit their customers, their bottom line, and our planet.
What You’ll Do
This position will start as a three-month trial period, where you’ll receive significant training and knowledge. If you meet our expectations, the position will become permanent. Initially, you’ll complete tasks assigned by colleagues to advance projects and learn how we approach water loss analysis, client communication, and strategy design. With time, you’ll expand your portfolio of work and partner with colleagues as necessary to accomplish projects.
Responsibilities
Responsibilities for this position will include:
• Proficiency in water loss management —develop and apply a sound understanding of the best practices for managing distribution water loss.
• Project management —manage water loss control projects in collaboration with utility clients and other partners. This includes project scoping, task planning and execution, and deliverables management.
• Project team collaboration —support a team of analysts in their pursuit of water loss investigation. Direct experience with data analysis to inform your review and synthesis of your colleagues’ work is a plus. Your colleagues will be using Microsoft Excel and scripts written in R (for example, production time series, billing records, and logged pressure data) to evaluate, quantify, and value distribution system water loss.
• Report writing —clearly present, narrate, and synthesize data analysis, quantitative and qualitative uncertainty, project findings, and programmatic recommendations.
• Client communication and education —clearly communicate findings and recommendations and effectively teach water loss management concepts to clients and partners in formal and informal settings.
• Project administration —create monthly invoices for each project, summarizing progress and deliverables to date, and update internal tracking and forecasting tools.
What Will Make You a Good Fit
• At least three years of job experience that shows expertise in project management and technical communication
• Familiarity with water distribution networks, water agencies, and/or water policy
• Excellent computer skills
• Experience with coding data analysis (proficiency with R preferred)
• Demonstrated skill in written communications (synthesis, technical report writing, slide development, etc.)
• Comfort and skill in verbally presenting technical concepts in client meetings and conference presentations
• Motivation to resolve water management challenges
• Stellar organizational skills and an eye for detail
• Ability to manage, prioritize, and execute tasks for multiple ongoing projects
• Ability to think on your feet and improvise
• A self-starter who can work independently under limited supervision
• A positive and proactive attitude
• Comfort with uncertainty in analysis and outcomes
• Experience leading conversations and problem-solving with clients
• Ability and willingness to travel for on-site work (must have a driver’s license)
A Little About E Source
Utilities across the US and Canada face the same fundamental, day-to-day challenges: to ensure reliable service for every customer while maintaining and modernizing aging distribution networks and meeting regulatory requirements—all while keeping rates affordable. At the same time, climate change has created a common, universal call to action: to reduce our carbon impact, improve our environment, and ensure the prosperity of future generations.
At E Source, We’re Dedicated To Helping Every Utility Become a Sustainable Utility. That Means Doing The Hard Work It Takes To Achieve Goals That Often Seem At Odds With One Another
• Environmental responsibility: Decarbonizing operations, reducing emissions, eliminating water leaks, and finding efficiencies
• Reliability: Providing safe, continuous, and consistent service in the face of increasing volatility caused by climate change, including extreme weather, drought, and fire
• Equity: Making services and programs truly available to all, especially low- and moderate-income residential customers and small and midsize businesses who are often disproportionately impacted by societal events
• Financial stability: Ensuring a bottom line that affords capital and operational expenditures while enabling innovation and giving back to our communities
E Source blends industry-leading research, predictive data science, and solution services to help utilities make better decisions to serve their customers, their bottom line, and our planet. With a commitment to practical innovation, we use more than three decades of utility-focused experience and our unique solution set to help our clients become a Sustainable Utility.
Benefits
• We offer excellent insurance packages, including medical, dental, and vision plans; company-paid life insurance; company-paid long- and short-term disability insurance; and medical and dependent-care flexible spending plans.
• We provide a flexible time off (FTO) program; E Source employees can take as many paid days off per year as they need, with manager approval, while fulfilling their work obligations and ensuring proper coverage of their responsibilities.
• We offer flexible schedules, flexible work locations, and a paid parental leave benefit.
• We provide a 401(k)/RRSP plan with a 3% employer match.
The budgeted salary for this position is $82,500 to $99,000 (includes base + annual bonus). Actual pay will be adjusted based on experience.
This person can work remote, a hybrid schedule, or from one of our physical office locations.
Applicants must be authorized to work for any employer in the US. We’re unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment visas at this time.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.